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ReviewBehavior genetics2011

Moving closer to a public health model of language and learning disabilities: the role of genetics and the search for etiologies.

Brett Miller, Peggy McCardle

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Review in Behavior genetics, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Brett MillerEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive Blvd., Suite 4B05, MSC 7510, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. millerbre@mail.nih.gov
Peggy McCardle

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Continued progress in language and learning disabilities (LDs) research requires a renewed focused on issues of etiology. Genetics research forms a central tenet of such an agenda and is critical in clarifying relationships among oral language development, acquisition of literacy and mathematics, executive function skills, and comorbid conditions. For progress to be made, diversified efforts must continue to emphasize molecular and behavioral genetics (including quantitative genetics) approaches, in concert with multi-disciplinary and multi-modal projects, to provide an integrated understanding of the behavioral and biological manifestations of language and learning disabilities. Critically, increased efforts to include ethnic, socio-economic, and linguistically diverse participant samples across a range of developmental stages is required to meet the public health needs of learners in the US and across the world. Taken together, this body of work will continue to enhance our understanding of LDs and help us move toward a truly prevention based approach to language and learning disabilities.

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Cultural DiversityMathematicsModels, GeneticPublic HealthChildCooperative BehaviorDyslexiaHumansInterdisciplinary CommunicationInternationalityLanguage Development DisordersLearning DisabilitiesRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsUnited States

Identifiers

PMID21229298
PMCPMC3897164

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